One day Coordinators Workshop on Moodle on 1 March 2019

Introduction

Methodology of the Coordinators' Workshop

The coordinators' workshop will be conducted at IIT Bombay on Friday, March 1, 2019. If any existing Remote Centre of IIT Bombay is interested in hosting this Moodle training workshop, they should first express their willingness to participate. It is mandatory for each participating Remote Centre to send two people from their Remote Centre:

• A Teacher, who will act as the "domain expert" for the main workshop for teachers, and
• A System Administrator, who will take care of all software/hardware related work, including installing and configuring of 'Moodle' software in the local server for the teachers’ workshop. He  will also act as the "domain expert" for the main workshop for system administrators.

The participating RC should take care of the travel expense of the above mentioned two people who would be coming to IIT Bombay for the Coordinators' workshop. The PMMMNMTT project will provide free accommodation and lunch/refreshments for all the participants. The participants of this workshop should go back to their respective centres and help organize the main workshop.

Course content

Moodle is a learning management system (LMS in short) which helps teachers and educators create an online platform for more adaptive and customized learning. Developed in 2002, it is free and open source software for use and is being used by many small and large institutions to create and deliver courses online to their students.

Moodle has many built-in features ranging from the basics such as file upload, assignments, quizzes, notifications and advanced features such as forums, quiz, wiki, etc. that can be used by learners. It also has many easy-to-install plugins such as attendance, reminders, analytics etc. to supplement these features.

Following topics will be covered for System Administrators in this workshop:

• Getting ready for Moodle Installation
• Installing Moodle on Local Server
• Admin Dashboard
• Blocks in Admin Dashboard
• Categories in Moodle
• Courses in Moodle
• Users in Moodle
• User Roles in Moodle

Following topics will be covered for Teachers in this workshop:

• Teachers Dashboard in Moodle
• Course Administration in Moodle
• Formatting Course material in Moodle
• Uploading and Editing resources in Moodle
• Forums and Assignments in Moodle
• Question bank in Moodle
• Quiz in Moodle
• Enroll Students and Communicate in Moodle

Please note that the medium of instruction for this workshop is English.

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Kannan Moudgalya, PI of PMMMNMTT and Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay

Ms. Nancy Varkey, Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay

Ms. Nirmala Venkat, Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay

Who Should Attend

It is mandatory for each participating Remote Centre to send two people from their Remote Centre (1) A Teacher, who will act as the "domain expert" for the main workshop and (2) A System Administrator, including installing and configuring of 'Moodle' software in the local server for the teachers’ main workshop. He  will also act as the "domain expert" for the main workshop for system administrators. The last date of remote centres’ acceptance is 19 February 2019.

Duration and Venue

The Coordinators' workshop will be conducted at IIT Bombay on Friday, March 1, 2019.  from 9.30 AM to 6.00 PM. The workshop venue is Software lab 201, 2nd floor, New CC Building, Adjacent to KReSIT Building, IIT Bombay, Powai - 400076.

Criteria for Certification

E-certificate will be provided to the participants after successful completion of the workshop and filling up the feedback form.

Course Fee

The course fee for the Coordinators' workshop is Rs. 200/-, which has to be paid at the time of online registration. The teacher and the systems administrator will have to register separately.

How to Apply

Enrollment will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained. The online registration for coordinators' workshop will start on 20 February 2019. The last date of registration is 28 February 2019 (before 2.00 PM) The URL for registration is: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/announcements.html

Accommodation

The confirmed participants will get free shared accommodation facility from 28 Feb 2019 (Afternoon) to 2 March 2019 (Morning, 10 AM) at MTNL guest house, Hiranandani, Powai. In case of early check in or late check out, participants have to bear the stay expenses.

Note

• IIT Bombay will NOT bear the travel expense of the participating representatives. RCs have to bear the travel expenses.
• The PMMMNMTT project will provide accommodation (from 28 Feb afternoon to 2 March morning), lunch and refreshments for all the participants during the workshop.
• Participants are required to bring earphones, as they will have to listen to video tutorials. For those who don't bring, low-cost earphones will be made available at the venue for a cost of Rs. 50/- each.

Address For Communication

Dr. Kalpana Kannan
Project Coordinator, ESOS Project
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in
Website - www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict